In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 42, 5 May 2014

Next Meeting

THURSDAY 8 MAY

FELLOWSHIP NIGHT

AT CILANTRO TRAINING RESTAURANT

HOLMESGLEN MOORABBIN CAMPUS

488 SOUTH ROAD

MOORABBIN

6.30 FOR 7.00 BUT DON’T COME EARLIER!

THURSDAY 15 MAY

SPEAKER: DAVID HONE

TOPIC: GEORGE WASHINGTON. AN INSPIRATION FOR

MODERN TIMES

CHAIR: DAVID RUSHWORTH

AV: MALCOLM PARKS

CASH DESK: KERRIE GEARD & MARY SEALY

HOST: GREG EVERY

THURSDAY 22 MAY

SPEAKER: TO BE ARRANGED

TOPIC: TO BE ADVISED

CHAIR: DAVID LANGWORTHY

AV: DAVID LEA

CASH DESK: KERRIE GEARD & MARY SEALY

HOST: GEOFF ABBOTT

2013—2014

Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report

What a great attendance for last week when Fred Hofmann and the International Team brought us up to date on Sabu.

Ken and Joan Dugan (regular guests and great supporters of the club) local pharmacist Malcolm Cosgriff and Corene Was-serthiel, Suzy Thorpe and Susan Hayden, Shirley Frewen, Sue Manks, Sue McArthur, Pat Seager and Wolf Fritze (future First Bloke) joined thirty one members on the night.

While it was Suzy Thorpe’s first visit it was Susan Hayden’s third and she has confirmed that she is interested in applying for membership.

The project in Sabu continues to be our major International project and congratulations to John for bringing the project to the club and to Fred and all the members on the International team and other members who have visited Sabu over the years.

The local schools must be promoting attendance to the Na-tional Youth Science Forum in January as we have received four requests in the last week from students requesting our support. At least one of these students has sent applications to all other clubs in the area to increase her chances.

The process for these students is that they must complete an on-line application by 31st May.

The club will then interview the applicants and make recom-mendations to our District Chairman. The students will need to bring a copy of their application form, a letter outlining their personal interests and achievements and give reasons as to why they should be selected, together with a copy of their lat-est school report to the interview. The students will then be interviewed at a District level and with attendance at NYSF being very competitive, only the best applicants will be selected to attend the NYSF in January 2015. Sallie Geary has agreed to assist with our interviews. Friday night is the last Presidents’ meeting for this year and our last opportunity to hand over any stamps we may have collected. Although we are having a fellowship night this week at the Cilantro training restaurant, please bring any stamps along and hand to Ken or myself.

For members who have not been before, Cilantro (Spanish for coriander) is located on the Holmesglen Moorabbin campus, 488 South Rd, Moorabbin.

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3 Holly Ransom 4 This Week’s Speakers 5 Notices 6 Fashions at the Boulevard 7 Club Structure / Picture of Week

SERGEANT’S HOMEWORK TOPIC;

CLOCKS

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

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I mentioned on Thursday night that Ken, Trish, Malcolm and I, together with Sue and Wolf attended a meeting organised by Hampton Rotary where the guest speaker was Past President Holly Ransom (she was President at 21), the youngest in the world) from the Rotary Club of Crawley.

Crawley is the second biggest Rotary Club in Western Australia with one hun-dred members which is not bad for a club that is only four years old, chartered in February 2010 and which has raised over one million dollars in that time.

As clubs across Australia struggle to halt declining mem-bership, Crawley expects to increase by 20 members before the end of the Rotary year. Of their current mem-bership, the youngest is 20, the oldest 78 and roughly 30 members are under 30 years; 25 are aged 30-50, and 40 are over 50 years.

However, the evening was not so much about the Rotary Club of Crawley but the speaker. Holly is now 24 and spoke for over 30 minutes about what a Rotary Club may look like in the future, how 50% of the population is under 30 yet less than 2% are in Rotary and that women still make up less that 15% of the membership.

Holly, who by the way, addressed a group of 200 women from the Bayside Business Network earlier in the day, spoke of the need to understand the way to attract younger members. She suggested, among other things, that breakfast meetings are preferable to younger people due to changes in lifestyle; consideration should be given to removing traditions that are no longer relevant, doing away with fine sessions and maximising the use of social media. They also created their own logo.

At no stage was Holly critical of Rotary or its membership acknowledging the experience, capability and ability to mentor that is so important to younger members. Holly did mention however, that many of the changes imple-mented were criticised by older members and she was continuously in dispute with Rotary headquarters, alt-hough it now seems that Holly has the ear of R.I. Presi-dent Ron Burton.

One major point Holly made in regard to talking to pro-spective members is to sell the “WHY” WHY DID YOU JOIN ROTARY? People don’t buy what you do; they buy Why you do it.

With the current DG, Merv Ericson and DGE, Tony Mon-ley in attendance, I would be very surprised if Holly Ran-som is not on the agenda for Ballarat and if she’s not,

she should be.

Holly is a passionate speaker with so much vision, per-ception and wisdom that it is of no surprise that she has been named as one of the “100 Most Influential Australi-an Women” by the Australian Financial Review and Westpac in 2012.

A full list of Holly’s achievements is reprinted later in this newsletter as is “11 Reasons to Join”; a list developed by Holly and the RC of Crawley. I would suggest that a visit to the Crawley website is definitely worth the effort. https://www.rotarycrawley.org

See you at Cilantro,

Robert

Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts

Please return all sold and unsold raffle tickets to Adrian

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Holly Ransom Holly Ransom is a dynam-ic social entrepreneur with passion for, and a track record of, driving innova-tive change in both the corporate and not-for-profit arena. Completed an economics-law degree Runs a public speaking consultancy and a compa-ny set up to develop lead-ership skills in young peo-ple. She is a University of Western Australia International Excellence Ambassador Serves as non-executive director of a number of not for profit organisations. In 2009, Holly launched ‘Women Who Lead’, an initiative that links women with inspirational female role models and mentors. She was chair of Young United Nations Women in Perth, in which she oversaw 22 events around the country. In 2011 Holly was one of three guest speakers invited to address the Governor-General’s International Women’s Day 100th anniversary celebrations in Canberra. The same year, Holly travelled to Kenya where she worked on a micro-financing project to train 22 Kenyan women to run their own businesses. In July 2012, Holly became the world’s youngest Presi-dent of a Rotary Club as President of Western Australia’s biggest club, Crawley. The winner of both the 2012 Western Australian of the Year Youth Award and 2012 Young Volunteer of the Year. Named as one of the "100 Most Influential Australian Women" by the Australian Financial Review and West-pac in 2012. As a leader in youth engagement and innovation, with a passion for building sustainable and thriving communi-ties, this 23-year-old entrepreneur and NGO Leader is a voice for change. Holly was invited by the Governor General to be one of the keynote speakers at her International Women's Day 100. This January she was one of 30 Australian leaders se-

lected to attend the Australian American Leadership Dia-logue in Silicon Valley and this June was one of 20 en-trepreneurs selected to represent the country at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit. Holly has represented Australia at summits across Amer-ica, Japan, Switzerland, Malaysia and Singapore. She drafted and presented a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama and a series of trade policies and recommenda-tions to the WTO. Holly represented Australia at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance Summit in Moscow and is now the Chair of the Y20 Planning Group for the 2014 Y20 Summit in Australia.

Reasons to Join Rotary from RC of Crawley Friendship Rotary provides one of the most basic human needs: the need for friendship and fellowship. Business Development Everyone needs to network. Rotarians of every business sector and vocation help each other and collectively help others. Leadership Education Rotary is an organisation of leaders and successful peo-ple who happily mentor, motivate and influence aspiring leaders. Continuing Education Each weekly meeting provides an opportunity to listen to different expert speakers on a variety of timely topics. Fun Each meeting is fun, our club projects are fun and our social activities are fun. Assistance when Travelling Because there are Rotary clubs everywhere, many Ro-tarians in need of a job, doctor, lawyer, hotel, dentist, advice, etc., while travelling have found assistance through Rotary. Personal Development Every week and at various events and functions, Rotary helps to develop an individual's personality, social skills and public speaking skills. Rotary is for people who like people. Youth Exchange Programs Rotary provides one of the world’s largest international youth exchange programs and youth leadership training. The Development of Ethics Rotarians are required to be ethical in their business and personal relationships. The Opportunity to Serve The chance to do something for somebody else and ex-perience the self-fulfilment that comes in the process is richly rewarding. Cultural Awareness Rotary is a cross section of prominent citizens from prac-tically every country, religion, culture, political persua-sion, language, and ethnic identity who learn to work with people everywhere becoming better

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This Week’s Speakers; Fred, John and Geoff Topic; Sabu Update International Director Fred Hofmann, John Manks and Geoff Stockdale provided a comprehensive up-date on the support of the community of Sabu is-land by the RC’s of Beaumaris and North Brighton.

Fred Introduced the session. John back grounded the history of the Club’s involvement which started with his initial visit to the island with his wife Sue while living in Indonesia. They were struck by the difficulty of the living conditions there and when John joined RCOB he proposed it as a possible In-ternational Project. From such small beginnings big things have grown. Geoff introduced a comprehensive 40 slide presen-tation updating the latest visit and status of the situ-ation and support of Sabu. Rather than try and summarise this presentation in this In Gear we have put the full version on to the website and you can see it at;

http://beaumarisrotary.com/international-service/

Geoff also stressed that this was also the time when the annual fund raising for Sabu is focussed. This fundraising is critical to ensuring that we can contin-ue to deliver services to the island people.

Details of this fundraising can also be found in a link which is found on the above web page. Fred, John and Geoff gave a very professional presentation which confirmed the importance of the work of Rotarians to the island of Sabu and the benefit Rotarians achieved in return.

IKAT cloth woven by the mother of a Sabu stu-dent (detail above full cloth below)

For more details of this Event see Flyer on Page 5.

For Tickets ring Jean Stringer

on 9515 0444.

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Notices Sausage Sizzle Great result from Sunday’s sausage sizzle: Gross: $2,219.14 Net: $1,629.80 The man from Bunnings told us that our result was pretty good but when pressed said that the record was over $4,000 gross, though only on two occa-sions. We were busy right through to nearly 5-o-clock - to sell $4,000 worth would be one frantic ef-fort (and perhaps more than a few undercooked sausages!). Malcolm

Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) Once again the MUNA was a special event on the District Rotary calendar. Although RCOB did not sponsor any participants this year we did supply a number of volunteers.

Above; Tony, Heather, Mary and new member John Symes. Below Left Honourary Member Brian Kimpton and Rotaractors, John, Sallie and Roonan

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Fields of Old

Photograph by John Qu, Na-

tional Geographic

Photo of Yuanyang rice ter-

races in China's Yunnan

Province. "It is a rare phe-

nomenon of man-made

beauty disguised as a natural

occurrence. I've gone

through the entire area and

observed that the light at

sunset, with the reflection

and high angle, would make

the terraces look more like a

piece of abstract art, yet with

real trees and huts. The shot

was taken from a mountain

above. I waited a few days

for the perfect moment."

CLUB STRUCTURE 2013 - 2014 UPDATED 18/03/2014

CLUB SERVICE

President Bob McArthur Director Ken Mirams

PE, VP Ken Mirams Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program Greg Every

Treasurer Malcolm Sawle Mee�ng A�endance Ken Mirams

Founda�on Mar�n Fothergill Communica�ons David Lea

Membership & Marke�ng Trish Smyth Fellowship Judi Hall

Interna�onal Fred Hofmann Sergeant David Hone

Youth Service Rob Fenton Photographer Greg Every, John Beaty

Community Chris D'Arcy Almoner Antony Nixon

Fundraising Adrian Culshaw Hosts & Cashiers Roster

On to Conference John Manks Youth Protec�on Officer Malcolm Parks

New Visions David Greenall

TEAM MEMBERS

Interna�onal Community Youth Service Fundraising

Harry Wolfe Geoff Abbo/ Kerrie Geard John Beaty

David Langworthy Richard Shermon Chris Mar�n Heather Chisholm

Geoff Stockdale Geoff Stringer Mary Sealy Roger Frewen

Ross Phillips Tony Phillips Megan Glenwright

Malcolm Parks David Greenall Golf Mike Hede

Tony McKenna Jim O'Brien David Rushworth

Roy Seager Charmaine Jansz

James Glenwright Antony Nixon

Susan De Bolfo

Membership and Marke�ng

Peter Flude

Richard Jones